All Ready-to-use articles – Page 5
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Ready-to-use Movie: The Fault in our Stars
The Fault in our Stars is the latest teenage film filled with vampires and set in a post-apocalyptic… wait, hang on. The Fault in our Stars is actually an adaptation from a successful teenage book that explores what it’s like to be young and in love, and does so successfully without any need to dress things up. This is a glossy yet real look at what it looks like to know that you’re dying.
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Ready-to-use Schools work: The Relationship Factor
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BlogReady-to-use Movie: Ex Machina
Working as a programmer for the world’s most popular search engine, Caleb’s life quickly changes when he is chosen to visit the company’s
eccentric CEO, Nathan, at his secluded research facility. Upon arrival Caleb discovers that Nathan has been working on artificial intelligence and wants Caleb to administer the Turing Test to his robot to discover whether a fully functioning ‘A.I’ is now in existence. Caleb willingly agrees, but isn’t prepared for meeting Ava. -
IssuesReady-to-use Movie: Edge of Tomorrow
In the near future, the Earth has been invaded by a seemingly unstoppable extra-terrestrial enemy who can reset time and know the future. Using this ability they are quickly destroying the world’s army that has united to stand against them. During the final assault, cowardly PR man Cage (Tom Cruise) finds himself bestowed with the ability to experience the same day over and over again.
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Ready-to-use Games + Icebreakers: Getting to know each other Games
NEWSFLASH - youth groups begin again after the summer. Youth leaders will be fresh-faced, eager, excited, and raring to get going again after being refreshed by the long summer vacation - and hopefully some young people will show up! Your task as youth leader is to help them get to know each other and to hone them into a lean, mean, fighting (perhaps not...) youth group. And so we present – ‘getting to know each other games’.
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IssuesReady-To-Use Movie: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Clip: The clip starts at 1:23:20 and lasts until 1:30:33.
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BlogReady-to-use Discussion: Queen Elizabeth II
On 9th September, Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning British monarch, having been queen since February 1952.
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Ready-to-use Discussion: Free speech
The world was rocked in January when terrorists attacked the headquarters of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people, including two police officers. This sparked a manhunt, sieges and outpourings of grief and anger across the world. The attackers, Islamic extremists possibly linked to al-Qaeda, are thought to have been ‘provoked’ by the magazine’s previous depiction of Islam, ISIS and the prophet Mohammed (images of Mohammed are banned in the Qu’ran and offensive to Muslims).
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Ready-to-use Discussion: Selfies
Remember when people used to take photos of other things? You might go on safari and take sweeping photos of majestic beasts, cavalcading through the Serengeti. You could go to a concert and snap the singer at that exact moment they hit the ludicrously high note.
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Ready-to-use Discussion: Doctor Who
The tension was palpable. At any minute, our collective fate, our future, would be revealed. Social media was abuzz with speculation, those in the room held their collective breath as viewers worldwide stared at the screen intently, barely moving, blinking or thinking. This. Was. It. The lights went down and suddenly, he appeared. Peter Capaldi… the new Doctor.
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Ready-to-use Discussion: It's just so emotional
In recent months cinemas have been full of nervous laughter mixed with floods of tears. Movie-goers have wept buckets while watching the doomed (no spoilers) romance between Hazel and Augustus in The Fault in our Stars.
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BlogReady-to-use Discussion: Winning
The summer has been full of celebrations and commiserations, people winning (the Olympics! Andy Murray! Chris Froome!) and failing (ah, the English football team), people working together and falling apart. But what does the Bible say about winning? Does trying hard matter? Where does grace fit in?
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BlogReady-to-use Discussion: Immigration
If there’s one story that’s constantly dominating the headlines, it’s immigration.
